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clinton was leading barack obama among african-americans until obama won iowa. so african-americans believing this guy had a shot but obama also appealed to independents, moderates who were as burned out on the iraq war as liberals were at that point. so there are a lot of questions right now about bernie sanders. i think that his reaction to that outburst at netroots nation sort of showed that he doesn't have, at least not yet, the band width to get beyond his basic core message of income inequality. in the meantime, you do see hillary clinton who has, you know, a great comfort with these issues kind of outmaneuvering him. he talks about jobs, not jails. she, today, on her facebook page said we need to acknowledge hard truths about race and justice and one of those is that racial inequality is not nearly a symptom of economic equality. we saw her husband a couple days ago acknowledge that his policies of the 1990s had created the incarceration problems that so animate so many african-american voters. >> do you think it's interesting watching what you're describ
clinton was leading barack obama among african-americans until obama won iowa. so african-americans believing this guy had a shot but obama also appealed to independents, moderates who were as burned out on the iraq war as liberals were at that point. so there are a lot of questions right now about bernie sanders. i think that his reaction to that outburst at netroots nation sort of showed that he doesn't have, at least not yet, the band width to get beyond his basic core message of income...
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so the erosion of the american dream did not begin with the obama administration. it began a long time ago, but as president, mr. obama's greatest legacy or defeat will be the extent to his administration that does something to halt this erosion. president obama has limited unilateral power. he must govern with a hostile republican majority in the house and a filibuster crazy minority in the senate. the only basis by which we should judge the effectiveness of this congress is the extent they work to lessen the gap. the work that matters is the work that directly responds to the growing gap in incomes. anything else, the deficit, abortion, so-called protecting marriage, is a distraction to what is actually happening in this country. so while the rich are getting richer, everyone else is left to fend for themselves, and our lawmakers continue to argue over less pressing issues, rome burns. those flat lines that you see there at the bottom, that's the base of the democratic party. the tea party often claims to represent those red and green lines, they claim to be the
so the erosion of the american dream did not begin with the obama administration. it began a long time ago, but as president, mr. obama's greatest legacy or defeat will be the extent to his administration that does something to halt this erosion. president obama has limited unilateral power. he must govern with a hostile republican majority in the house and a filibuster crazy minority in the senate. the only basis by which we should judge the effectiveness of this congress is the extent they...
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. >> to protect america's patient-centered care, we must replace president obama, americans for prosperity is responsible for the content of this advertising. >> yeah, americans for prosperity, incidentally referencing the election there, mostly concerned with social welfare. >> obama's solution is to spend even more and raise taxes? really? we've got to take away president obama's blank check. >> hasn't your social welfare been improved by seeing that? nothing to do with the election, right? when president george w. bush was in office, those were called 527s. under president barack obama, the type on the right, those are called 501c4 organizations. there are some democratic leaning 501c4s, as well. they tend to look something like this. >> cheering on our colleges and their students, something we're all in favor of, but republicans want to take away that support. but president obama has a plan to help. >> it's a joke, right? it's a joke that these groups are not set up to be political actors, but tax law says that intervening in elections can't be most of what these groups are about. and
. >> to protect america's patient-centered care, we must replace president obama, americans for prosperity is responsible for the content of this advertising. >> yeah, americans for prosperity, incidentally referencing the election there, mostly concerned with social welfare. >> obama's solution is to spend even more and raise taxes? really? we've got to take away president obama's blank check. >> hasn't your social welfare been improved by seeing that? nothing to do...
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republicans last week voted down president obama's american jobs act including money for teachers and first responders, to help cities hire them and avoid laying them off. senate democrats brought that same proposal back this week as a stand alone. federal money for teachers and cop and firefighters. the kind of stuff that's being celebrated from claremont, new hampshire, to waller county, texas, now, when they can get their hands on federal money. the stuff is popular, overwhelmingly americans say the government should spend more to keep teachers and cops and firefighters on the job. to pay for it, taxes on corporations and rich folks, please. that's what the polling says at least. republicans hate this idea in the abstract. we've seen this movie before, says republican senator john mccain. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell says, quote, it's disappointing senate democrats are still focused on the same temporary stimulus spending. republicans hate this idea in the abstract, but in the specific, it's garden city, idaho, it's muscatine, iowa, urbandale, iowa, it is oakland, califor
republicans last week voted down president obama's american jobs act including money for teachers and first responders, to help cities hire them and avoid laying them off. senate democrats brought that same proposal back this week as a stand alone. federal money for teachers and cop and firefighters. the kind of stuff that's being celebrated from claremont, new hampshire, to waller county, texas, now, when they can get their hands on federal money. the stuff is popular, overwhelmingly americans...
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on the right, the equivalent headline, barack obama, americans rate president obama as the best president of their life times. so they will both be campaigning for their respective parties during the mid-term elections. president obama will be campaigning tomorrow morning for democrats trying to pick off republican held house seats in california. and he is going to be making specific appearances for specific candidates and groups of candidates apparently between now and the first week in november. clearly he knows every time he campaigns from here on out, it will be national news. and it is a rare thing for former presidents to do this. but president obama has decided that he is not going to be shy about talking about his successor and controversies that are plaguing his successor. >> by the way the claim that everything will turn out okay because there are people inside the white house who secretly are not following the president's orders, that is not a check. i'm being serious here. that's not how our democracy is supposed to work. these people aren't elected. they're not accountable. t
on the right, the equivalent headline, barack obama, americans rate president obama as the best president of their life times. so they will both be campaigning for their respective parties during the mid-term elections. president obama will be campaigning tomorrow morning for democrats trying to pick off republican held house seats in california. and he is going to be making specific appearances for specific candidates and groups of candidates apparently between now and the first week in...
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when he said, remove obama or millions of americans die! he was quoting "the power of relentless" guy, wayne allyn root. in addition to "the power of relentless," in addition to claiming president obama didn't go to columbia, he said during the ebola crisis that if president obama wasn't somehow forcibly removed from office, we would all die from ebola. all of us. >> remove obama! or millions of americans die! that's an actual quote. >> that's an effective technique in a speech. to just let the other side's words hang out there on their own, unembellished. as actual literal quotes. while the audience laughs at them. that's a very effective technique. and there has been consternation in the media, i think in politics as well, as to whether it's possible to hold donald trump accountable as a presidential candidate for the more ludicrous and preposterous things that he tends to say as a candidate. just because of the sheer number of things he's said that fit that bill. how do you hold him to account for those things, make him answer for those
when he said, remove obama or millions of americans die! he was quoting "the power of relentless" guy, wayne allyn root. in addition to "the power of relentless," in addition to claiming president obama didn't go to columbia, he said during the ebola crisis that if president obama wasn't somehow forcibly removed from office, we would all die from ebola. all of us. >> remove obama! or millions of americans die! that's an actual quote. >> that's an effective...
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of our american history, president obama has time to make 13 different nominations. if the senate keeps us a pace on par with the historical average. there's nothing about having a year left in office that precludes president obama from replacing justice scalia on the supreme court. we are at a very unusual time in american history where the republican party appears to be saying with one voice, that they believe a new, for the first time in american history, there can be no confirmation of a new supreme court justice in the president's last year in office and the president should not nominate a potential justice. since the year 1900, in a president's last year in office, there's been at least eight occasions on which a presidential nominee has been put forward or voted on for the supreme court including in president reagan's last year when kennedy was confirmed be a democratic controlled senate in 1988. now the republicans have decided new rule, presidents aren't allowed to do that anymore. at least this president isn't allowed to do that anymore. this president, in
of our american history, president obama has time to make 13 different nominations. if the senate keeps us a pace on par with the historical average. there's nothing about having a year left in office that precludes president obama from replacing justice scalia on the supreme court. we are at a very unusual time in american history where the republican party appears to be saying with one voice, that they believe a new, for the first time in american history, there can be no confirmation of a...
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we'll be back with more with president obama from american university. you're watching the "hardball" college tour from american university. >> there is the united states of america. there is not a black america. and a white america. and latino america. and asian america. there's the united states of america. honestly, i'm not looking for five-star treatment. i get times are tight. but it's hard to get any work done like this. then came this baby -- small but with windows and office. it runs my work stuff. ...and i can use apps like flipboard for news, or xbox video to watch the shows i'm never home to see... and i can still get work done at the same time. excuse me, do you mind if i... yep. ♪ honestly, i wanna see you be brave ♪ is sweatier and messier than my family on the field. so like the nfl i use tide... ...because i'm the equipment manager in this house. that's my tide. what's yours? mom swaps my snack for a piÑa colada yoplait. and when mom said i was going out too much, i swapped it for staying in. [ shouts ] guess who's going out tomorrow
we'll be back with more with president obama from american university. you're watching the "hardball" college tour from american university. >> there is the united states of america. there is not a black america. and a white america. and latino america. and asian america. there's the united states of america. honestly, i'm not looking for five-star treatment. i get times are tight. but it's hard to get any work done like this. then came this baby -- small but with windows and...
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obama oebl beat mitt romney among asian-american voters by 47 points. obama, 73, mitt romney, 26. just brutal. and with a history like that from the last two presidential elections, we can only speculate on how the asian-american vote will go in this next election. particularly if the current prohibitive front-runner for the nomination begins becoming the republican nominee. >> i mean, you know, negotiating with japan. negotiating with china. when these people walk in the room, they don't say hello, how is the weather? it is so beautiful? how are the yankees doing? they're great. they say we want deal. >> we want -- it's nice the way he opens his eyes really wide and does the crazy monster hands. says republican presidential front-runner donald trump. you can see that clip online today all over the place under headlines like this. trump ill person it is a asian negotiators. that happened last night in dubuque, iowa, that rally in dubuque. that was the rally immediately after his contend shus press conference where he told the most prestigious latino reporter in the nation and then
obama oebl beat mitt romney among asian-american voters by 47 points. obama, 73, mitt romney, 26. just brutal. and with a history like that from the last two presidential elections, we can only speculate on how the asian-american vote will go in this next election. particularly if the current prohibitive front-runner for the nomination begins becoming the republican nominee. >> i mean, you know, negotiating with japan. negotiating with china. when these people walk in the room, they don't...
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president obama's american jobs act that he has been stumping for around the country woo, if it passed, fast-track about 700 million bucks to indiana and about 500 million bucks to kentucky right away, specifically to do stuff like fixing broken bridges. but kentucky senator, top senate republican mitch mcconnell, has denounced the american jobs act as not serious. his mitch mcconnell plan for dealing with more than one in three kentucky bridges needing to be replaced is apparently so serious it he's keeping it secret. in the face of rather monstrous traffic and detour adversity, like what is being faced in southern indiana and in kentucky right now, in the face of that kind of adversity, americans innovate. that means a brand new every 45 minutes $1 ferry service across the ohio river that did it not exist before, which is particularly handy if you work right at the bridge abutment. but still better, another option for getting across the ohio river there with sherman minton shut down. but it also means another kind of innovation in the form of branding and merchandising. when we first
president obama's american jobs act that he has been stumping for around the country woo, if it passed, fast-track about 700 million bucks to indiana and about 500 million bucks to kentucky right away, specifically to do stuff like fixing broken bridges. but kentucky senator, top senate republican mitch mcconnell, has denounced the american jobs act as not serious. his mitch mcconnell plan for dealing with more than one in three kentucky bridges needing to be replaced is apparently so serious...
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in 2009 in the first months of president obama's presidency, american spring wire joined with two other makers to ask for help. china was unfairly dumping steel wire in the united states market at artificial prices. they asked for help. the commerce department said they would investigate and the commerce department did move to protect american spring wire. they cracked down on china for dumping their underpriced product. thus the company was benefitted. they got the help they wanted. a company that was then used as a backdrop for mitt romney saying president obama had not been tough on china. today mr. romney gave a major address on economic policy. this is part of his closing argument for the presidency. he delivered the speech at a company called kinsler construction services. mr. romney argued that president obama's stimulus had failed to help private companies. >> a new stimulus three years after the recession officially ended, that may spare government, but it won't stimulate the private sector than it did four years ago. >> that's what mitt romney said today at kinsler constructio
in 2009 in the first months of president obama's presidency, american spring wire joined with two other makers to ask for help. china was unfairly dumping steel wire in the united states market at artificial prices. they asked for help. the commerce department said they would investigate and the commerce department did move to protect american spring wire. they cracked down on china for dumping their underpriced product. thus the company was benefitted. they got the help they wanted. a company...
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the obama administration realizing how important it is to get a fix for the american government on the ground there, especially right now, the obama add american strags has taken a remarkable step to send a temporary ambassador to turkey while it tries to get a full time one. they sent ross wilson during the george w. bush administration. he's just a place holder. he only got back to the region this past saturday. so the president is going to try to defeat isis this week. turkey is assuredly going to be key to that strategy. we have a huge ask and we have nobody to ask. it's one thing to talk about the world being a mess. it's another thing talking about congress being a mess makes the world being a mess. it's summer break in july. the senate was shamed into finally confirming an ambassador to russia after months not having one and a huge stand off with russia. we, at the time, they were finally at the last second before vacation shamed into signing one up. now that the senate is back from vacation and not for very long, maybe we can finally get an ambassador to turkey now, too? maybe?
the obama administration realizing how important it is to get a fix for the american government on the ground there, especially right now, the obama add american strags has taken a remarkable step to send a temporary ambassador to turkey while it tries to get a full time one. they sent ross wilson during the george w. bush administration. he's just a place holder. he only got back to the region this past saturday. so the president is going to try to defeat isis this week. turkey is assuredly...
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. >> barack obama is the best food stamp president in american history. the fact is barack obama is the best food stamp president in american history. that's a fact. the fact is barack obama is the best food stamp president in american history. that's a fact. >> you just say it. you say it over and over. now, when newt gingrich was challenged on what he was really saying basically in that claim there at a fox news debate, it was very clear where the republican audience was. >> speaker gingrich, you recently said black americans should demand jobs not food stamps. i got to tell you, my e-mail account, my twitter account has been inundated with people of all races who are asking if your comments are not intended to belittle the poor and racial minorities. you saw some of this reaction during your visit to a black church in south carolina. you saw some of this during your visit to a black church in south carolina where a woman asked you why you referred to president obama as the food stamp president. it sounds as if you're seeking to belittle people. >> firs
. >> barack obama is the best food stamp president in american history. the fact is barack obama is the best food stamp president in american history. that's a fact. the fact is barack obama is the best food stamp president in american history. that's a fact. >> you just say it. you say it over and over. now, when newt gingrich was challenged on what he was really saying basically in that claim there at a fox news debate, it was very clear where the republican audience was. >>...
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he called president obama's defense of american tire companies bad for the nation. so this is a test. this is an administration that even if you like what they have done has been not that great at chest bumping. rightly or wrongly, it's just stylistically true that they have a hard time getting political credit for things that could and should give them political capital. things from killing bin laden to health reform. the obama administration has a string of policy accomplishments which for whatever the reason, they don't get bragging rights for. and now that president obama's po poeopponent is going for alle bragging rights he can get. he's barking as loud as he can whether or not he has any bite here. he barks about how confrontational he's going to be although he's not in favor of it when people do confront. he barks about growing american jobs though he invested in companies that specialized in sending american jobs to the land where a jeep costs as much as a bentley. he talks about our day of shame for helping a blind dissident crawling away from constant hous
he called president obama's defense of american tire companies bad for the nation. so this is a test. this is an administration that even if you like what they have done has been not that great at chest bumping. rightly or wrongly, it's just stylistically true that they have a hard time getting political credit for things that could and should give them political capital. things from killing bin laden to health reform. the obama administration has a string of policy accomplishments which for...
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they think it's easier now because barack obama is african-american. so they present him as the other, the friend of the muslim brotherhood, the underlying here is that he's black. but the country has changed. it's not the same. so they are out of touch with what's going on in the country. and the second problem they have is the demographic issue. the country has changed in terms of the makeup of the population. you know, we don't know what's going to happen with this election. it could still go either way. but if the republican party doesn't change its message and strategies and it's whole message, it's doomed because it can no longer function in what the united states has become. >> that issue about the legitimacy of the president and trying to otherize him, i found myself in reading the right-wing arguments, it's not just stuff from the blog world. it's definitely relatively respected republican pollsters starting to get on board. it made me start to think about let's say the election goes the way the polls say it's going to go. aren't they laying t
they think it's easier now because barack obama is african-american. so they present him as the other, the friend of the muslim brotherhood, the underlying here is that he's black. but the country has changed. it's not the same. so they are out of touch with what's going on in the country. and the second problem they have is the demographic issue. the country has changed in terms of the makeup of the population. you know, we don't know what's going to happen with this election. it could still...
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they put out this poster saying that 57% of americans did want to defund obama care. they read the poll backwards or upside down or something. the poll says 57% of americans don't want it. they put out a poster saying, look at this poll, it says that 57% of americans do want it! who cares! we used to be a think tank, but now we're run by a senator who quit and used to run a marketing firm before that. yeah, sometimes we get our numbers backwards. who cares? we make posters now. then under jim demint, the heritage foundation said they would score senators on whether they voted with ted cruz to filibuster for a government shutdown. we will track that vote, they said. we will score you on that. you won't look like a real conservative anymore unless you vote with ted cruz to vote with ted cruz to filibuster to shut down the government. well, that got awkward, because after ted cruz did stand there for 21 hours, talking about the bill to fund the government, talking about why it was so important to block that bill, even senator ted cruz himself then, right afterwards, vote
they put out this poster saying that 57% of americans did want to defund obama care. they read the poll backwards or upside down or something. the poll says 57% of americans don't want it. they put out a poster saying, look at this poll, it says that 57% of americans do want it! who cares! we used to be a think tank, but now we're run by a senator who quit and used to run a marketing firm before that. yeah, sometimes we get our numbers backwards. who cares? we make posters now. then under jim...
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president obama. so the american embassy in bangkok is excited right now. but they're also disappointed and having a hard time disguising it. they're disappointed because president obama will be visiting there but not staying very long. three countries in less than three days. but because they can't schedule a bunch of official stops for the president to see all of thailand's most famous sites, the u.s. embassy in thailand came up with another idea. we call it president obama faux obama. they have done ten of these photos in all. flat president obama posed at famous thai landmarks. even though we officially thought they toted cardboard obama around the country to do this, the state department says these are theme park replicas of major landmarks across thailand. so it's faux obama visiting faux thailand. the american embassy takes a heartwarmingly aggressive approach to courting good will from the locals. in addition to the cardboard president at the famous sites of thailand feature, they have lots of pictures of dogs, which they use to explain dog-related
president obama. so the american embassy in bangkok is excited right now. but they're also disappointed and having a hard time disguising it. they're disappointed because president obama will be visiting there but not staying very long. three countries in less than three days. but because they can't schedule a bunch of official stops for the president to see all of thailand's most famous sites, the u.s. embassy in thailand came up with another idea. we call it president obama faux obama. they...
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and 20 million americans got health insurance because of president obama. and for the first time ever, the number of uninsured people in our country in single digits, more than 90% of the country has health insurance now. and quietly along the way, yes, he did appoint the most diverse cabinet ever and he a pointed a record number of women judges and minority judges and they will stay there after he is gone -- including the first latina supreme court justice. daughter of selena and juan who came from puerto rico. and so this is the last day of president obama's two terms in office. he's being replaced by someone who said that president obama was secretly foreign, not really american, fake, unqualified to be president. the incoming president called president obama "stupid." called him a disaster. he also fought to have a federal judge removed from a fraud case against him on the sheer basis of the fact that the judge was latino. he's a mexican, he said. he's a mexican, as that is the self-explanatory as to why he should not be allowed to hear his case. everyb
and 20 million americans got health insurance because of president obama. and for the first time ever, the number of uninsured people in our country in single digits, more than 90% of the country has health insurance now. and quietly along the way, yes, he did appoint the most diverse cabinet ever and he a pointed a record number of women judges and minority judges and they will stay there after he is gone -- including the first latina supreme court justice. daughter of selena and juan who came...
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another american musical act to follow up the president's trip. this time it's going to be singer/songwriter jason mraz. that's how you say it, right? mraz. he's scheduled to play a gig december 16? in rangoon. he's going to be playing outdoors free of charge. only the second time after ozo motley that any western musical act has been there in decades. even though we expect democrats and republicans to fight over everything these days, the associated press notes that republican senate leader mitch mcconnell has for a long time taken a special interest in burma, as a senator. he has not held back in praising president obama for taking this big historic trip to that once totally-closed country. president obama on this trip is due to meet with the japanese prime minister and the chinese premier. those two countries fighting over who controls some islands in the east china sea. the whole trip to asia comes in the midst of a very scary flare-up between israel and gaza. we do not know exactly what started this most recent round of fighting, but we do kn
another american musical act to follow up the president's trip. this time it's going to be singer/songwriter jason mraz. that's how you say it, right? mraz. he's scheduled to play a gig december 16? in rangoon. he's going to be playing outdoors free of charge. only the second time after ozo motley that any western musical act has been there in decades. even though we expect democrats and republicans to fight over everything these days, the associated press notes that republican senate leader...
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i just saw the african-american support for president obama, 95%. this disappointment come fired what? come fired what? the other black presidents we've had? i'm sorry. you hear from cornell west. don't argue with someone whose job depends on not being convinced. academically they have to take that position. it's not what we want. >> i would like to see the number from enthusiastic voters in 2000 and 2004. when those candidates get al gore and john kerry as their candidates. frankly, the enthusiasm they had for barack obama was not going to be equaled by hillary clinton. she has to talk about policy. quit trying to appeal to the emotion. she's not going to win black voters over by motion but by telling them what she's going to do for them in office. and also telling them that she's going to be willing to be challenged by it. >> she's a chance to talk to every african-american monday night. television is powerful. it is democratic. lower case d. everybody has a tv set. everybody can watch. everybody has one. and they will watch. what should she say o
i just saw the african-american support for president obama, 95%. this disappointment come fired what? come fired what? the other black presidents we've had? i'm sorry. you hear from cornell west. don't argue with someone whose job depends on not being convinced. academically they have to take that position. it's not what we want. >> i would like to see the number from enthusiastic voters in 2000 and 2004. when those candidates get al gore and john kerry as their candidates. frankly, the...
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any sort of humanity or any sort of american shared identity because it's part of what president obama did so beautifully in 2008 as candidate was to take his biography and make it shared. >> i guess that is what i can't figure out. i think a lot of it is sincere. if they try to kick him off the ballot, it's going to be a huge issue that will derail romney out of week. it seems out of party loyalty, he would quiet down. >> maybe the idea is to get us con fronting this instead of something else. we're going to talk tomorrow about the jeremiah wright moment. we'll point out that maybe the leak is the story. it was never going to be a strategy, but it was going to be a leak to get these days of coverage and get us to be the ones talking about it. perhaps there's something else we're not talking about. >> melissa harris-perry, i'll see you tomorrow morning. >> glad to have you. >> you can catch the show saturdays and sundays from 10:00 to noon eastern. thank you for being here. >>> still ahead, nobel prize winner will be here. plus a real live republican senator. stick around. ♪ how are
any sort of humanity or any sort of american shared identity because it's part of what president obama did so beautifully in 2008 as candidate was to take his biography and make it shared. >> i guess that is what i can't figure out. i think a lot of it is sincere. if they try to kick him off the ballot, it's going to be a huge issue that will derail romney out of week. it seems out of party loyalty, he would quiet down. >> maybe the idea is to get us con fronting this instead of...
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only 34% of americans approve of president obama's handling of the ukraine even though americans like every specific thing he is doing on ukraine. is it a paradox? it is. does it make the white house crazy? yes it does. chart imitates life. joining us john harwood, political writer for "the new york times". thank you for joining us. appreciate you being here. >> hey, rachel. >> the recent polling, assume it makes the white house crazy. do they deal with it by going into denial, refusing to believe that people dislike them even though they like everything they're doing or a strategy for handling the paradox. >> they understand it is measuring two different things. when you ask about specific steps. the same is true of the president's economic plan, they're popular. but when people are asked do you approve his job performance on the issue it is really a question are things going well or not? so, you could support all of the items the president's for in ukraine, or on the economic plan, and say he is not doing well with ukraine or the economy if they don't feel like the situations are be
only 34% of americans approve of president obama's handling of the ukraine even though americans like every specific thing he is doing on ukraine. is it a paradox? it is. does it make the white house crazy? yes it does. chart imitates life. joining us john harwood, political writer for "the new york times". thank you for joining us. appreciate you being here. >> hey, rachel. >> the recent polling, assume it makes the white house crazy. do they deal with it by going into...
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, it's fair to say, between president obama and the african american community in terms of him taking of the mantle. some people say it's not his job to be the spokesperson for all african-americans, he should just be our president. but there was, i think, a sense nationally of mounting pressure that he had to weigh in in more substantive fashion than he had thus far on the subject of trayvon martin. you know there's going to be a big civil rights march tomorrow that reverend sharpton is going to be leading. beyonce weighed in today. beyonce is a pop culture figure but is also someone with 10 million twitter followers. there is something in the groundwater, i think, about needing to be more public. i wonder to what degree you thought this was an answer to that criticism or that call to action. >> well, i think there are two things. i think, one, the president was being a human. and that's what we're talking about, right? jonathan talking about how it felt and the incredible power. and the fact that he wasn't scripted. when he gave that speech on race in philadelphia in 2008, he had pr
, it's fair to say, between president obama and the african american community in terms of him taking of the mantle. some people say it's not his job to be the spokesperson for all african-americans, he should just be our president. but there was, i think, a sense nationally of mounting pressure that he had to weigh in in more substantive fashion than he had thus far on the subject of trayvon martin. you know there's going to be a big civil rights march tomorrow that reverend sharpton is going...
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specifically, there is tension, i think it's fair to say, between president obama and the african-american community and him taking the mantle. some say it's not his job to be the spokesman for african-americans. he should just be our president. there was a sense of mounting pressure that he had to weigh in a more substantive fashion than he had thus far. we know there's a big civil rights march. beyonce weighed in today. she is a pop culture figure but is someone with 10 million twitter followers. there is something about needing to be more public. i wonder to what degree you thought this was criticism to that or a call to action. >> i think, one, the president was being a human. that's what we're talking about, right? jonathan talking about how it felt and the incredible power of it. and the fact that he wasn't scripted. when he gave that speech on race in philadelphia in 2008 he had prepared a very careful speech. it was a strong speech. it was a careful speech. this was a much more human reaction. and i think that means all presidents are human. the idea that white presidents aren't be
specifically, there is tension, i think it's fair to say, between president obama and the african-american community and him taking the mantle. some say it's not his job to be the spokesman for african-americans. he should just be our president. there was a sense of mounting pressure that he had to weigh in a more substantive fashion than he had thus far. we know there's a big civil rights march. beyonce weighed in today. she is a pop culture figure but is someone with 10 million twitter...
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. >>> right now on "first look," a concerned president obama addresses americans' ebola fears head on. is enough being done and will an ebola czar help? for first time, we'll hear from the ebola patient nina pham. she's been moved a few miles from the white house to the national institutes of health, plus cocaine for joe biden's son boots him from the u.s. navy. the giants are back for the third world series in five years. and the story of the mama bear and her cub that got national attention. good morning, happy friday to you. thank you for joining us today. we'll have the latest on the ebola situation in a moment.
. >>> right now on "first look," a concerned president obama addresses americans' ebola fears head on. is enough being done and will an ebola czar help? for first time, we'll hear from the ebola patient nina pham. she's been moved a few miles from the white house to the national institutes of health, plus cocaine for joe biden's son boots him from the u.s. navy. the giants are back for the third world series in five years. and the story of the mama bear and her cub that got...
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if president obama asked that question today the answer for most americans probably is yes. but it is a much more ambivalent, equivocal yes than 1984. ronald reagan ran his famed morning in america ad campaign, which touted the fact the economic picture in the country improved since he took office. the jobs picture was better, inflation was down, things were according to reagan, looking up. as barack obama heads in his reelection, things are without a doubt much much better than they have been. and much, much better, much, much better than they could have been. so how do you turn much better than they have been in something that packs the rhetorical force that morning in america packed back in 1984? how do you convey the feeling things are getting better in an effective message dirty harry himself, i never voted for a democratic president in my life seemed to have solved for president obama. by now you have seen the clint eastwood chrysler ad that aired during the super bowl last night, right? was an ad that focused on the success of the auto bail out specifically, but may h
if president obama asked that question today the answer for most americans probably is yes. but it is a much more ambivalent, equivocal yes than 1984. ronald reagan ran his famed morning in america ad campaign, which touted the fact the economic picture in the country improved since he took office. the jobs picture was better, inflation was down, things were according to reagan, looking up. as barack obama heads in his reelection, things are without a doubt much much better than they have been....